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1:05 PM ET, October 24, 2006

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Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Google unveils 'custom' searches  —  Google will on Tuesday launch a customisable search engine that users can carry on their own blogs and other websites, a move that potentially opens up a big new market for its search listings and related advertising.  —  Marissa Mayer, vice-president …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Co-op Launches  —  Google just launched a customized search service called Google Co-op (screen shots below).  Co-op allows a user to create and launch a search engine with just a few specific websites included.  Searches will return results from only that website.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Roll your own Google Search  —  Not a day passes by when someone or the other bemoans the fact that they cannot find anything on Google anymore.  Well, they can stop complaining, because Google is doing something about it.  The company has announced Google Custom Search tools …
Discussion: The Next Net, Ajaxian and JenSense
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Google releases customizable search  —  A new Google tool will let people use Google's search platform to create search engines focused on the content of their choice.  —  With the Google Custom Search Engine, announced by the company on Monday, Web site and blog publishers can provide custom results …
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Custom Search Engine
Discussion: Google Watch and Googling Google
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Google Wants To Own the Business of Content
Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Review: Custom Search Engine
Discussion: David Card, SEL and Screenwerk
Rex Hammock / Rex Hammock's weblog:
The* Google to announce narrow search tool for web publishers, bloggers
Discussion: Frank Barnako
Apple:
Apple MacBook Pro Notebooks Now with Intel Core 2 Duo Processors  —  Up to 39 Percent Faster  —  Apple® today announced that its entire MacBook™ Pro line of notebooks now includes the new Intel Core 2 Duo processor and delivers performance that is up to 39 percent faster than the previous generation.
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Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core:
Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros imminent
Discussion: TechSpot and MacRumors
Judd / Think Progress:
Bush says he uses "the Google."  —  Watch it:  —  Digg It!  —  Transcript:
Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
A New System Is Now a Waiting Game  —  I never thought Ludacris would get in the way of my video game habit.  —  But there I was Thursday evening on the second floor of the warehouse Sony rented here to show off its soon-to-be-released PlayStation 3 game console, checking …
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Macworld:
The PlayStation 3: 24 things you need to know
Discussion: Joystiq, Neowin.net and digg
Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's GestureLab:
TV is dead  —  YouTube, Digg, and MySpace took out TV a few months back, and now the corpse is sitting up and taking notice.  Latest evidence is the incipient obliteration of Studio 60, the West Wing sequel which is terrific and therefore doomed, in favor of 30 Rock, which is not and therefore not.
Business 2.0:
Microsoft's big nightmare: free online apps  —  A new generation of browsers is about to make Web applications better than downloadable desktop software.  —  (Business 2.0 Magazine) — The browser is the new OS.  Yes, we've heard this before, and if you're quietly groaning right about now, I can understand why.
Ken Belson / New York Times:
T-Mobile Tests Dual Wi-Fi and Cell Service  —  Yesterday T-Mobile became the first major mobile phone carrier in the United States to begin selling service that allows a single handset to communicate over both cellular networks and Wi-Fi hot spots.  —  The first phones, which are available …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Edgeio gets $5 million to expand Web 2.0 classifieds site  —  Edgeio, a Menlo Park start-up trying to redefine the way people list classifieds, has raised $5 million in a first round of venture capital, and may raise more.  Here is the release.  —  The round was led by Intel Capital and included an investment from Transcosmos.
Mike / Techdirt:
How Dare You Make My Content More Valuable!  —  from the it's-not-so-tricky dept  —  Perhaps it's not that surprising, but it's a bit upsetting to still see so many people having difficulty with the idea that having others increase the value of your content is a good thing.
David / JCXP:
PINNED: Windows Defender Final Released  —  Windows Defender Final Released  —  Yes, as a complete suprise it seems that Microsoft has released the final version of their long-time-in-the-making Anti-Spyware program, Windows Defender.  —  The build is marked as 1.1.1592. and it seems …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Pimp Every Room in Your House with RSS  —  I love RSS feeds.  How much?  So much that I want to stick them everywhere - in every room I frequent and on every device I use.  So, off I went on a quest to find all of the interesting ways to consume feeds beyond the computer.
 
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Steven Levy / Wired News:
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Hackers Zero In on Online Stock Accounts
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International Herald Tribune:
A cellphone sideshow: YouTube-like content is going mobile
Discussion: GigaOM
Richard Bennett / The Original Blog:
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Firefox 2 Launch: Interview With Chris Beard, Mozilla VP Products
Discussion: digg and Slashdot
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft earns a mixed report card for its year-old Live initiative
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Netflix Q3 2006 Earnings Call Transcript
 Earlier Items: 
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Yahoo Publisher Network portal gets a makeover
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The Venice Project launches with Future of Television
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
SkyRider gets $12M more for aggressive P2P search engine
Discussion: GigaOM
bittorrent.com:
BitTorrent is key ingredient in Internet-connected devices
Preed / preed's blah-blah-blahg:
The Anti-release  —  I mentioned this in today's Project Meeting …
David Hornik / VentureBlog:
Chris Anderson Strikes Again: The Economy of Abundance
Paul Thurrott / windowsitpro.com:
Exclusive: Microsoft Overcomes Final Vista Hurdles, Heads to RTM
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
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Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video has a framework deal for NBA broadcast rights for at least a decade, starting in 2025-26; ESPN/ABC is expected to keep the finals

 
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